Blackboard Blog tool - used for individual, group, or course blogs

A Web Log or a Blog, is a Web 2.0 tool that is quite easy to use!  Though there are 3rd party blogging tools, Blackboard has a built-in blogging tool.




Instructional Strategy: Reflection; Critical Thinking
Blooms Levels= 2-6 (understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, creating)

- Creating new material
- Used for reflecting
- Journalizing
- Can be a group collaborative activity
- Peer feedback is an option using the Blackboard Blog tool
- Critical thinking (can work on putting thoughts in writing

Trello: A great free web-based tool for organizing, project management, and collaboration activities!

Trello is a free web-based application which allows one person or a team of collaborators to organize information, keep track of a workflow using project management skills, and share some or all of the work with other collaborators.

Use Trello to individually or in a team, develop the workflow for a project.  Create the activities, due dates, areas of responsibility, people responsible, resources required, etc. - needed in the workflow for project management.  Share with others outside, or just with members of your team.  She your entire project in a single glance.  Get a summary or a detailed look of all activities, due dates, and status toward completion.

Sync across devices (there is an app for iOS and Android devices)!



INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Compare/Contrast, Collaboration, Demonstration, Brainstorming

Bloom's Level: 1-5  (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing and Evaluating)

- Clarify thinking
- Organization
- Collaboration
- Project management
- Classify ideas
- Explain meaning
- Graphic organizer
- Digital storytelling- Reflective judgment (Affective Learning)
- Highlight similarities and differences (which shows student has a deeper understanding that goes beyond surface level)

- Form generalizations based on categorized items

- BYOD ideas

- Visualization

Creating a website with Weebly

Using easy website creation tools to create an ePortfolio.

Weebly is a free website creation app with a short learner curve.  There are add-ons available for purchases as well, but the basic app is more than capable of delivering the goods!




Weebly is a free website builder used by over 25 million people!

Here is a example site built with Weebly, for use as an ePortfolio idea.

Sample (click to view)

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: Compare/Contrast, Reflection, Digital Storytelling, Creating

Bloom's Lever 3-6  (Apply, Analysis, Evaluate, Create)

-ePortfolio
-Creativity
-Innovation
-Digital storytelling
-Resource gathering
-Project Based Learning

Examples of ePortfolios

Creating a website for sharing your work and communicating information is quite easy to do with the right tool!

We created ePortfolios using Google Sites, Weebly, and Pathbrite to see how each one worked. The list below is in alphabetical order and gives a link to the official help page and my example sites so you can see what an end product might look like. Let us know if you'd like us to check out another ePortfolio building tool.

You may wish to use a website to create an ePortfolio!  These sites allow you to do this with relative ease.

Value of an ePortfolio (check this out!)

Google Sites

Free. Now that Baker College is a Google Apps For Education institution, using Google Sites for ePortfolios will be an efficient choice for many students.  One of the templates built into Google Sites is specifically for e-Portfolios!

• Get started with Google Sites
• My example Google Sites site

Pathbrite

Individuals can get a free account. They have paid accounts for institutions. It's simple to use and good if many of your projects are web-based. Since it's so simple to use, it's less flexible.

• Getting started with Pathbrite
• My example Pathbrite site

Weebly

A basic site is free. Templates are available to help you get started or you can build from scratch. Weebly gives you opportunities to purchase various add-ons from domain names to images, if that is a desire, but not necessary.

• Beginner's Guide to Weebly
• My example Weebly site

Wix

A basic site is free.  Templates are available to help you get started or you can build from scratch. Wix gives you opportunities to upgrade your site, but it is not necessary.

• Beginner's Guide to Wix